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or shot an adult bird -E. mindanensis in Palawan] after the middle of August, 
when it no doubt migrates to Borneo and other islands, as most of the birds 
in Labuan are seen after September during the N.E. Monsoon” (Ibis 1888, 410). 
In the Sangi Islands an Eudi/namis occurs which Prof. W. B Iasi us has 
separated as a variety of E. mindanensis. It may be doubted whether E. minda- 
nensis itself is entitled to more than subspecific separation (i. e. whether indivi- 
duals of it do not intergrade with E. honorata or E. orientalis)\ for the present, 
however, it appears best, in view of the want of sufficient data and material, 
to treat it as a species, composed of the follonung two subspecies: 
1. The typical Eudynamis mindanensis. 
a. Cuculus mindanensis (1) Linn., S. 51. 17(56, I, 69 (ex Brisson). 
h. Eudynamis mindanensis (1) Cab. & Heine, Mas. Hein. 1862, IV, 52; (2) Wald Ibis 
1869, 340, ? pt.; (3) id., Tr. L. S. 1875, IX, 162;. [4) Sharpe, il). 1877, 2-a ser.I, 
320,351; (5) Tweedd., P.Z. S. 1877, 543, 691, 823; 1878, 946; 1879, 70; (6)^^. Bias.' 
Ornis 1888, 306; Ibis 1888, 373; (7) Everett, J. Str. Br. E. A. S. 1889, 173; (8) 
AVliitelicad, Ibis 1890, 46; (9) W. Bias., J. f. 0. 1890, 138; (10) Steere, List 
Coll. B. Pliilip. Is. 1890, 12; (11) Shelley, Cat. B. XIX, 1891, 321; (72) Hartert, 
J. f. 0. 1891, 298; (13) AVhitehd., Exid. Kini Bain 1893, 145; (14) Sharpe, Ibis 
1894, 247, 258; (15) Bourns & AVorces., B. Menage Exp. 1894, 35; (16) Grant, 
Ibis 1895, 115; 1896, 123, 474. 
c. Eudynamis malayana Sharpe, Ibis 1888, 198 (fide AVhitehead). 
d. Eudynamis orientalis (1) Whitehead, Ibis 1888, 409. 
Descriptions. Cabanis & Heine b 7; Tweeddale h ,5\ Shelley h 11. 
Adult male. Entirely black, glossed with blue. “Iris bright crimson; bill greenish grey; 
feet darker greeiush grey” (Everett b 5). 
Adult female. Above dusky, glossed with olive, the head and sides of neck streaked with 
rufescent brown, the rest of the upper surface spangled (several spots on each feather), 
and the quills and tail rather narrowly barred, with the same colour or a rather 
paler shade; chin and throat pale tawny, the bases and margins of the feathers 
black; remaining under parts paler barred with dusky. The bars on the wings 
and tail do not quite reach to the shaft. “Iris bright crimson; bill and legs greenish 
plumbeous” (Everett h 5). 
Young. “The young of both sexes are black, like the adult male. The only signs of the 
female plumage in one young female were on the secondaries, winch, on the inside 
of the wing, wore slightly barred with brown. Another young female had two or 
three brown feathers on the back, the wings being dull black” (AVhitehead d 1). 
Distribution. Pluhppine Islands — Luzon (Everett b 5), Mindoro, Mindanao, Basilan, 
Samar, Marinduque, Guimaras (Everett b 5, Steere b 10^ Meyer b 3), Xegros 
(Everett b 77), Palawan (AVhitehead d 7, b 8, Platen b 6), Sooloo Islands 
(Platen b 9). 
2. Eudynamis mindanensis sangirensis (W. Bias.). 
e. Eudynamis niger (1) Briigg., Abh. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 57. 
f. Eudynamis nigra (1) Fischer, op. cit. p. 538. 
g. Eudynamis sp. nov. ? (1) Salvad., Atti Ac. Torino 1878, 1188. 
h. Eudynamis mindanensis (7) Meyer, Isis 1884, 6, 17; (2) W. Bias., “Braunschweig. Anz.” 
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